Tonight was brilliant.
Last week I had the honour of presenting a talk on radio and help out writing songs with a host of the best young songwriters in South Essex. It was one of the best things I’ve been involved it.
I had 10, count them 10 guests on the show. Seven of the songwriters and three of my fellow facilitators. Each songwriter who were able to attend played at least one of the originals they worked on last week.
Here are the songs played on the show. Including the songwriters tunes which they played live in bold.
1. General Fiasco – Hollows
2. Grouplove – Tongue Tied
3. Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly – I Spy
4. Guy Garvey – Belly Of The Whale
5. Gaz Coombes – Hot Fruit
6. Green Day – Holiday
7. Gorillaz – Punk
8. Grizzly Bear – Dory
9. Gym Class Heroes – The Queen And I
10. Vaccines – Wreckin Bar (Ra Ra Ra)
11. Darren Jones – Rise Above
12. Nicola Collis – Unforgiving Minute
13. Wombats – Tales of Boys, Girls and Marsupials
14. Wombats – Kill The Director
15. Miles Kane – Don’t Forget Who You Are
16. Peace – Wraith
17. Palma Violets – Best Of Friends
Aaron Wong – Timelines
18. The King Blues – The Streets Are Ours
19. Them Crooked Vultures – Dead End Friends
Clem Talbot – Anymore
20. Foals – Out Of The Woods
21. Sunflower Bean – Come On
Lottie Molica – Emily
This Town
22. Friendly Fires – On Board
23. Iggy Pop – Gardenia
Leo C – I’d Express You Anytime
Is That You?
24. David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
Caitlin King – When I Wake Up
Metaphor
25. Django Django – Default
26. The Futureheads – Hounds Of Love
Emily Frith – This Town
Change It
27. Taylor Swift – Better Than Revenge
Lillith Vlkova – Passed Just Once
Witches
28. Foster The People – Call It What You Want?
29. Editors – Munich
30. Howler – Wailing (Making Out)
31. The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
32. Elastica – Connections
33. The Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done
34. Apachelux – Waiting For The Red Light
35. Amy Sergeant – Racing The Tide
36. Dolly Mavies – The Weight Of You
37. Evil Twin – As Lost As Alice
38. The Ends – You Write The Hits, I Write The B-Sides
39. Asylums – Missing Persons
Here are all the performances in a YouTube video!
The Facilitators and the songwriters both participated in the 50 Grades Smarter. Both ended up in the top three and blown the competition wide open. Here is the scoreboard.
John Paul Elliott – 18
The Facilitators – 16.5
Young Songwriters – 16
Chris Robson – 15
Davey Hal – 14.5
Hemmingway – 14.5
Darren Jones – 14
Poetry To Succeed – 14
Collette Meury – 12.5
Leo C – 10.5
Nicola Collis – 10
Drew Sutton – 10
Remedy – 9.5
Adam Duffill – 8.5
